The Grand Finale: All 135 Space Shuttle Launches in One Video. When NASA launched its last space shuttle a year ago, McLean Fahnestock paid tribute to the 30-year old shuttle program by putting footage from every launch into one video. 135-in-1.
It makes for an arresting sequence. But, unfortunately, the 1986 Challenger explosion ends up overwhelming the story. One Vimeo commenter, Jeremy Ricketts, got it right when he said: I don’t know about the rest being a decorative border to Challenger. In my eyes it highlighted what an insanely amazing accomplishment it was that out of all these launches, only two have ever resulted in failure of that type. Anyway, while we’re on the subject, don’t miss some of our favorite space shuttle videos from times past — like Endeavour’s Launch Viewed from Booster Cameras, William Shatner’s Narration of a Film Documenting the History of the Space Shuttle, and The Best of NASA Space Shuttle Videos from 1981 to 2010. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. via Kottke. Mars Exploration Program. NASA Science. Possible Water Flows on Mars Seen by NASA Spacecraft. NASA: It Rained So Hard the Oceans Fell. “The year 2010 was one the worst years in world history for high-impact floods.
But just three weeks into the new year, 2011 has already had an entire year’s worth of mega-floods. “ – Meteorologist Jeff Masters I spend hours a day researching what New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman calls “global weirding”: the destabilization of our weather system fueled by the three million tonnes of fossil fuel pollution we inject into it each hour. So it is a rare day when something shocks me as much as a recent U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) report on last year’s extreme rainfall. As most locals know from soggy personal experience, our corner of planet Earth since last spring has been a bit wetter and greyer than normal.
Still, we got off lucky. According to this jaw-dropping NASA report, worldwide rainfall and snowfall were so extreme, in so many places last year, that sea levels fell dramatically. So just where did all this missing water go? Monster hail. Dr. NASA's nuclear Mars tank arrives at launch site. High performance access to file storage NASA's new and improved, nuclear-powered, laser-toting Mars rover has arrived at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to prepare for its launch towards the red planet this autumn.
The roughly SUV-sized vehicle, formerly known as the Mars Science Laboratory but now officially dubbed "Curiosity", arrived aboard a massive US air force C-17 cargo plane from California where it was manufactured. Along with the machine came the retro-rocket lander craft which will deliver it to the Martian surface by means of cunning lowering tackles, as seen in this rather groovy NASA concept vid. The aeroshell - the round space tin in which rover and lander will arrive in the skies of Mars - and the cruise stage rocket which will carry aeroshell and contents on their interplanetary journey are already at Kennedy. The mission is slated to lift off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas V launcher at the end of November or beginning of December.